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SMYTH, See also:
SIR
SIR WARINGTON See also:
WILKINSON, JAMES (1757–1825)
WILKINSON, JAMES JOHN GARTH (1812-1899)
WILKINSON, JOHN (1728-1808)
WILKINSON, SIR JOHN GARDNER (1797—1875)
WILKINSON, TATE (1739—1803)
WILKINSON (1817-1890) , See also:

BRITISH

British geologist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

Naples on the 26th of See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1817, his See also:

FATHER

father, See also:

ADMIRAL

Admiral W. H. Smyth (1788-1865), being at the See also:

time engaged in the See also:

ADMIRALTY, HIGH COURT OF

Admiralty Survey of the Mediterranean. He was educated at See also:

Westminster and See also:

BEDFORD

Bedford schocls, and after-wards at Trinity See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1839. Having gained a travelling scholarship he spent more than four years in See also:

EUROPE

Europe, See also:

ASIA

Asia See also:

Minor, See also:

SYRIA

Syria and See also:

EGYPT

Egypt, paying See also:

GREAT

great See also:

ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to See also:

MINERALOGY

mineralogy and See also:

MINING

mining, examining coalfields, metalliferous mines and See also:

salt-See also:

WORKS

works, and making acquaintance with many distinguished geologists and mineralogists. On his return to See also:

England in 1844 he was appointed mining geologist on the See also:

GEOLOGICAL

Geological Survey, and in 1851 lecturer at the School of Mines, a See also:

POST

post which he held until 1881 when he relinquished the See also:

CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of mineralogy but continued as See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of mining. In later years he became See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

MINERAL

mineral inspector to the See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

Office of See also:

Woods and Forests, and also to the Duchy of See also:

CORNWALL

Cornwall. He was elected F.R.S. in 1858. He became See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the Geological Society of See also:

LONDON

London in 1866-1868, and in 1879 he was chairman of a Royal See also:

COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

Commission appointed to inquire into accidents in mines, the See also:

WORK

work in connexion with which continued until 1886. He contributed sundry papers to the See also:

MEMOIRS

Memoirs of the Geological Survey, the Quarterly See also:

Journal of the Geological Society and the Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. He was author also of A See also:

YEAR

Year with the See also:

TURKS

Turks (1854), and of A See also:

TREATISE

Treatise on See also:

COAL

Coal and Coal-mining (1867). He was knighted in 1887.

He died in London on the 19th of See also:

JUNE

June 189o, and was buried at St Erth, not far from his See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country See also:

home at See also:

MARAZION

Marazion in Cornwall. A portrait and some reminiscences of W. W. Smyth will be found in the Memoir of Sir A. C. See also:

Ramsay (1895), by Sir A. See also:

Geikie.

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